KARACHI - Muhammad Zubair Motiwala, chairman Sindh Board of Investment, said that Khairpur Special Economic Zone’s Captive Power Plant would be the first ever waste-to-energy power plant in the region.
Presiding over a meeting on the project, he said that the Khairpur Special Economic Zone project was supplemented by a dedicated waste to energy captive power plant which would ensure an uninterrupted power supply to all the enterprises within the zone.
Motiwala said that the present government had initiated the development of an industrial zone dedicated to the agro industry which would have world class features, amenities comparable with any industrial zone in the international arena.
The chairman SBI said that the power plant was being developed at KSEZ, which is a future hub for agro-processing and other related industries on a local strategically positioned for proximity to date growing areas, transportation links and access to labour.
Director General, SBI, Muhammad Riazuddin Qureshi said that the project will enable the locals to get employment through onsite training and added that the KSEZ is being set up keeping in view the global challenges of the competitiveness to attract foreign direct investment and by enhancing productivity and reducing cost of doing business for economic development and poverty reduction.
Abdul Azeem Uqaili, director projects, SBI said that the KSEZ was an industrial duster with liberal incentives, infrastructure, investor facilitation services which would also be guaranteed under the new SEZ Act 2012.
Earlier the consultant Jaffery Associates and National Industrial Park (NIP) presented the detailed feasibility report on the project. Among the others, meeting was also attended by Zubair Habib, CEO, NIP, (Capt) Anwaar-ul-Haq, Project Director, KSEZ, GM Shaikh (Project Coordinator KSEZ), Ali Sibtain, Director PPP Unit and other stakeholders.
EID MELA: Dow University of Heal in collaboration with Konpal Child Abuse Prevention Society will hold an eid mela with special children on Saturday. Organisers here on Friday said wide range of activities have been arranged for children on the occasion.
The kids invited for the event include those from Al-Imran, Al-Umeed, Dar ul Sukun and different other institutions functional in the city.
Vice Chancellor of DUHS Prof Dr Masood Hameed Khan with other faculty members and students of the university, besides members of Konpal will attend these children.